KJ Schneider

This is well done.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

I stand corrected - multiple moments per day. Friday was amazing (meaning obscene).

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”

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Two of my fondest memories from living in the DC area are experiencing an entire weekend of free events showcasing a variety of artists / productions and going to my first opera. An amazing venue. An absolute shame.

ICE officers mistook Durango father for someone else, official says, but arrested him and children anyway “It’s my understanding that the father was mistaken for somebody else when (ICE) encountered him,” testified Gregory Davies, Denver’s third-ranking ICE official, in court Fr…

ICE agents mistakenly identified a Durango father when they pulled him over this week, a senior enforcement official testified in court today, but still arrested the man and his 2 kids in an incident that quickly sparked protests in the Colorado mountain town // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Same day. 🇺🇸

Rep. Jason Crow: "While Americans suffer and kids go hungry, Trump's building a $300 million gold plated ballroom. He's found money for $170 million in new private jets for Kristi Noem."

Every day there’s a “let them eat cake” moment out of this administration and Congress. If Dems don’t start plastering this stuff all over social media, billboards, etc they should pack it in. Holy hell.

ROFL

The Justice Department targets cartels by prosecuting them.

Since January, federal drug prosecutions have dropped to their slowest pace in decades. That enforcement pullback was steepest for the types of cases used to go after higher-level traffickers.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.

The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Why is the Trump Administration Purging Our Military’s Best? Bill Kristol and General Mark Hertling discuss the wave of senior military officers forced out under Trump, the redeployment of forces toward Venezuela, and growing signs of unlawful or politically dr...

Why's the Trump administration purging our military’s best?

Why are they closing a US military base in Romania that helps reassure our allies but offends Putin?

What's the plan--if there is one--with Venezuela?

A very helpful talk with @markhertling.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/why-is-the...

Jennie Gage - Leaving MAGA Jennie Gage Jennie GageArizona I grew up in a big Mormon family, with roots in the church stretching all the way back to my great-grandparents. I’m the oldest of five kids. I was raised in the Phoenix...

Jennie is a former Mormon, white supremacist and Christian extremist; a crisis of faith led her to leave MAGA.

Read her remarkable story.

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DHS Lied About a Veteran They Wrongfully Arrested (w/ George Retes) Tim Miller is joined by George Retes, a U.S.

DHS lied about a veteran they wrongfully arrested.

www.thebulwark.com/p/dhs-lied-a...

This both warms my heart and really pisses me off.

To be clear, my anger and frustration is with the leaders and politicians who refuse to do their jobs - not every day citizens stepping up. Political leaders don’t feel and aren’t held accountable by their constituents.

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained."

Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

This is a five-alarm fire. Utah is working on a 1,200-bed, remote detention camp for people who can't afford rent. This includes hundreds of locked beds, forced medication, & the potential for forced labor.

SIDE-BY-SIDE

The original sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto

Then... the new sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto, just submitted by Justice Dept

Reference to Jan 6 is eliminated

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

One solid clue that something was amiss is that very few people arrested in DC are wearing life vests.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

A shame there isn’t a part of Virginia they’d surely find acceptable easily reachable by Metro or a quick car or Uber ride.

Also - that’s about $1700 per trip. When I travel on business I only rack up that kind of cost when I have a flight, hotel, rental car, and generous per diem. What a crock.